January 2011
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Up Close - The Restaurateur Gabriel Stulman and a... →
Doing big things…
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Intelligence, academic performance, and prestigious schools don’t correlate well...
– What the science of human nature can teach us : The New Yorker
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Friday's Bloomberg Interview →
Perhaps a bit overexposed this week :)
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Death, Taxes & Competition
In the current low capital required, frenzied early-stage funding environment, one thing you can be sure of if you enter an interesting space is that there will be competition. And oftentimes, the competitors product will look eerily similar to your own.
Just a few recent examples that pop to mind are Foursquare & Gowalla in the LBS space, Instagram and PicPlz in the mobile photo-sharing...
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Ending The Conversation Is As Important As...
When folks are interviewing for a job or looking for an investment, they tend to put their best foot forward. But seeing as you can only have one job at a time or take investment from one syndicate at a time, odds are that the vast majority of those conversations will not end in a new job or an investment made.
We touch more people in the process of looking for work or capital by a factor of 10...
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My Favorite Music of 2010
Firmly in the category of better late than never, below are my top music picks for 2010. If only I had consistent Internet reception in Nicaragua, these would have come much sooner. But who’s complaining?
As in the past, my criteria for this list is pretty simple — what I listened to most this past year. So here goes:
Top Albums:
Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
As my...
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